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WJC-9234: Charles 1st Hammered Silver WORCESTER Civil War Halfcrown. Clear initial marks of a slender Castle (obv) and a Helmet (rev). Worcester mint. Grass under the king's horse / an oval shield topped with a crown on the reverse. S.R. 3096. Worcester is not quite the definitive attribution for this group of coins that you might think. Some coins within the family have a "W" below the horse which was previously accepted as Weymouth, a Devonshire coastal town. T. F. Dymock in the 1861 Numismatic Chronicle first postulated this theory. Weymouth was indeed held for the King from August 1643 to 17th June 1644 when it finally surrendered but the declaration halfcrown from this family is 1644 which would have meant the entire coinage would have to have been crammed into just two and a half short months before surrender, a highly unlikely scenario. In 1981, George Boon, the then Curator of the National Museum of Wales, wrote an article suggesting that the attribution should not be Weymouth but instead Worcester. This was included in the John Brooker Collection of Charles 1st Coins book, published by Spink in 1984. That attribution was based on the above difficulties with Weymouth, the fact that leaving Oxford on the night of 3rd June 1644 with approximately 7,000 men, Charles 1st did pass through Worcester with his troops early in June, but, predominantly, on the evidence suggested by the location of coin hoards - the Worcester surrounding area being rich in such finds (the 1982 Telford Hoard being one such example - x367 AR coins, £26 8s face value. 6d.; L: Sun 2/6 (10), 1/– (1). R (all 2/6): Shrewsbury 1642 (1); Oxford 1642 (3), 1643 (3); 1644 (1), 1645 (2), 1646 (2); Bristol 1644 (2), 1645 (2); A 1645 (1); W/SA group (9); HC (1). S: James VI 30/– (1). ECWCH, 23–32) and Weymouth being almost, if not completely devoid of any such finds from this family of coins. This coin was part of that famous and provenance-defining 1982 Telford Hoard: see old tickets here and Provenance below. Of good weight (14.35g - the Brooker examples being 14.04g, 13.86g, 15.23g & 13.73g) and being very well centred. The reverse is particularly pleasing with the obverse, whilst not suffering from worn dies (they simply did not strike enough coinage to come even close to wearing out the dies), does show a degree of lack of definition as a result of either shallow obverse dies or the manor of the strike, as occasionally happens with this provincial issue - see Brooker plate coins 1141-1144. A rare coin with outstanding provenance. £2,675

Provenance:

ex PRIORSLEE hoard: Telford, Shropshire, 29th April 1982 - hoard discovered on a mechanical excavation during construction work on M54 motorway.

ex Spink, purchased after hoard inquest, sold September 1984 for £350 to...

ex Dr John Hulett (died 4th March 2017 aged 87), collection dispersed by DNW Auctions between September 2017 and October 2020, purchased by...

ex AMR Coins (sold 2019 for £2,350)

WTH-9235: Edward VI Hammered Silver PORTRAIT Penny. Initial mark an Arrow obverse and reverse, Tower (London) mint, first period, April 1547 to January 1549. S.R. 2460. Crowned bust of the boy-king Edward VI facing right / shield over cross. Excellent legends for issue both sides with clear initial marks, also both sides. Slightly wavy flan otherwise nVF in grade which is most unusual for this seldom-seen issue. Very rare. £1,350

Provenance:

ex Spink